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| - People, your positive reviews are killing me. Because clearly Tin Tin is a slop house. Don't bother selling me the mile-long buffet options, because if the most appetizing thing you can find is jello cubes, then you're not selling me anything but a smoke-and-mirrors game.
I'd eaten here before, a few years back. I was getting some car work done at the nearby Griffin Brothers shop (another place to avoid; another review for another time), and had some time to kill while the grease monkeys were pretending to know how to do a 37-point inspection. I'd heard about how awesome Tin Tin's buffet was, so I gave it a whirl.
Bad choice. Pretty sub-standard far, as far as I was concerned. The sesame chicken is drowned in some kind of gooey mystery sauce. Their noodles were criminally salty. As for the sushi...I think I've seen better sushi at a Hardee's. And Hardee's doesn't make sushi. Honestly, I sampled nothing worth a damn here. Yuck. Never again will I step foot in here.
So fast forward about 5 years later. I'm working relatively nearby, and I had a rare opportunity to take a long (read: more than 30 minutes) lunch. One of my colleagues kept saying how much he loves dining at Tin Tin. He told me it had gotten better since I last ate here. But I was jonesing for some Chinese, but didn't feel like going to Wan Fu, since I'd been eating there a lot lately, and I didn't want to get burned out.
I should have trusted my instincts. Tin Tin was WORSE than ever. I was there less than 15 minutes, no joke.
Also, wanna irk the shit out of me, hostess? When I ask to be seated somewhere that doesn't feel as if I'm being exiled to the back of the restaurant for some culinary crime I committed in the past, don't roll your eyes at me. That should have been my cue to get the hell out of there. Stupid me for not listening to my instincts...again.
Tin Tin shouldn't ever be recommended to anyone by anyone, unless you clearly despise that person and wish all kinds of evil upon them. And even then, recommending Tin Tin would be the worst kind of cruel and unusual punishment.
What a dump.
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